https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201920811002
The hadronic interaction model Sibyll 2.3c and muon production in extensive air-showers
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Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP), Av. Prof. Gama Pinto 2, 1649-003 Lisbon, Portugal
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Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Institut für Kernphysik, Postfach 3640, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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Bartol Research Institute, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
* e-mail: friehn@lip.pt
Published online: 10 May 2019
One of the applications of the hadronic interaction model Sibyll is the simulation of extensive air showers of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. In recent years it has become more and more clear that simulations do not agree with measurements when it comes to observables related to muons in air showers. We discuss the processes in Sibyll that are directly related to muon production in extensive air showers and describe their relation to shower observables.
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